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Informational 17 Bitcoin

Adjust from_str in HexPrimitive to be no-alloc

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Mitchell Bagot

80/100 · Strong
Adjust from_str in HexPrimitive to be no-alloc

The from_str implementation for parsing types from hex strings currently
relies on alloc due to the use of hex::decode_to_vec. This locks Header
FromStr decoding behind alloc.

Implement from_str without alloc, and adjust feature gates on
HeaderDecoder to match new relaxed requirements.
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This commit is a routine refactoring of how hex strings are parsed into Bitcoin data structures in the rust-bitcoin library. It replaces an allocation-based hex decoder with a streaming, no-allocation decoder so the code can run in environments without a heap allocator. There is no direct security bug being fixed; it is a feature-gate and performance/capability cleanup.

Recommended action

No security action required. Treat as normal code-quality/feature-enablement change. Reviewers may want to verify the streaming decoder correctly handles empty input, odd-length strings, and invalid hex characters, but the diff shows those errors are propagated unchanged.

Security signals we found

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No security-relevant signal: refactoring only

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Feature-gate relaxation (alloc no longer required for Header FromStr/Decodable)

03

Parser now uses bounded 4096-byte stack buffer instead of heap vector

04

Error type moved and re-exported; no semantic change to error handling

Risk score

Why this scored 17/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 2/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 3/5
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